September 21, 2016
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Jamal Khashoggi The US State Department denied a report that was issued last week by a respected international institution that alleged that a secret agreement would allow Iran exemptions that would...
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US September 6, 2016
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Jamal Khashoggi Saudi Arabia needs neither relations nor normalisation with Israel, but why is this question becoming relevant? And why is it being asked so often at a time when interest...
August 24, 2016
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Jamal Khashoggi Life, politics, killing and destruction in Syria will not be put on hold until November when Americans elect a new president. No one should expect the new president to...
August 23, 2016
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Jamal Khashoggi I wrote recently about circumstantial evidence that was being withheld by the United States within the text of a 28-page document because it is allegedly harmful to the Kingdom...
April 18, 2016
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Jamal Khashoggi The proverb, “Good fences make good neighbours” is apt for state borders whose demarcation should be a cause for celebration rather than dispute. I say this after the re-drawing...
Saudi Arabia and Turkey have wasted a number of opportunities in Syria. If they had intervened early on to resolve the issue, it would have been less expensive and...
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US Last week I warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a threat to Saudi Arabia due to his stubbornness and politics when it comes to Syria. There was wisdom...
We ought to take seriously the implicit Russian threats in an article in Pravda newspaper calling for Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey to be punished before they cause a...
Having love and caring for Egypt necessitates removing the imagined ban on addressing what goes on there by the sole influential Arab media, by which I mean the Saudi...
When “Operation Decisive Storm” began a few months ago, the supporters of ISIS launched a campaign to question its credibility. They were joined in this by their traditional enemies,...
A newspaper once published a report announcing the death of American author Mark Twain; he sent a message saying, “The report about my death is rather exaggerated.” This anecdote...
Had I written this article of mine to comment on the Iran and the P5 + 1 agreement without Operation Decisive Storm currently underway, I might have written a...
Weeks ago I wrote an article entitled “Each era has its state, its men and its foreign policy”. Today, and in the aftermath of the “Storm of Decisiveness”, time...
February 23, 2015
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Jamal Khashoggi By rejecting President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi’s call for military intervention in Libya, the UN Security Council and the international community have saved Egypt from falling into a trap set...
States’ policies change when their leaders change or when their circumstances change or when their policies reach a dead end. All of this has happened to the Saudi foreign...
The apology offered to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey by U.S. Vice President Biden is unimportant. What is really important is what he said disclosing that...
“We have to be cautious regarding what is being concocted for us in secret”. Have you stumbled against this sentence today in a newspaper of some sort? You must...
Despite all the rhetoric about the Palestinian issue, such as it being “the Arab’s first cause”; the central, principal, existential and mother of causes; the initiator of revolutions and...
In March 1955, an Israeli army unit attacked a camp belonging to the Egyptian army inside the Gaza Strip, which was entrusted to Egypt after the 1948 war. The...
Have you at last seen the original Sykes – Picot map? It annexes Mosul to Great Syria, and this is exactly what is happening now. So, are we witnessing...
![A gas flare on an oil production platform [REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi/]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2016-09-21T145116Z_2_LYNXNPEC8K0T7_RTROPTP_3_IRAN-OIL-EXPORTS.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
The US State Department denied a report that was issued last week by a respected international institution that alleged that a secret agreement would allow Iran exemptions that would...![Flag of Saudi Arabia [File photo]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/images/article_images/flags/saudi-flag-e1567581258356.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
Saudi Arabia needs neither relations nor normalisation with Israel, but why is this question becoming relevant? And why is it being asked so often at a time when interest...![Destruction caused by airstrikes in Syria on 24th August 2016 [file photo]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/destruction-in-Syria-2016-01.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
Life, politics, killing and destruction in Syria will not be put on hold until November when Americans elect a new president. No one should expect the new president to...![Image of US President Donald Trump in Washington, USA [Samuel Corum / Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/images/article_images/people/donald-trump-3.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
I wrote recently about circumstantial evidence that was being withheld by the United States within the text of a 28-page document because it is allegedly harmful to the Kingdom...
The proverb, “Good fences make good neighbours” is apt for state borders whose demarcation should be a cause for celebration rather than dispute. I say this after the re-drawing....jpg)
Saudi Arabia and Turkey have wasted a number of opportunities in Syria. If they had intervened early on to resolve the issue, it would have been less expensive and...
Last week I warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a threat to Saudi Arabia due to his stubbornness and politics when it comes to Syria. There was wisdom...
We ought to take seriously the implicit Russian threats in an article in Pravda newspaper calling for Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey to be punished before they cause a...
Having love and caring for Egypt necessitates removing the imagined ban on addressing what goes on there by the sole influential Arab media, by which I mean the Saudi...
When “Operation Decisive Storm” began a few months ago, the supporters of ISIS launched a campaign to question its credibility. They were joined in this by their traditional enemies,...
A newspaper once published a report announcing the death of American author Mark Twain; he sent a message saying, “The report about my death is rather exaggerated.” This anecdote...
Had I written this article of mine to comment on the Iran and the P5 + 1 agreement without Operation Decisive Storm currently underway, I might have written a...
Weeks ago I wrote an article entitled “Each era has its state, its men and its foreign policy”. Today, and in the aftermath of the “Storm of Decisiveness”, time...![Egyptian security forces seen in Arish, following an attack which was claimed by Daesh, on 19 December 2017 [Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Egypt-security-services-in-Arish-e1513781202966.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&ssl=1)
By rejecting President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi’s call for military intervention in Libya, the UN Security Council and the international community have saved Egypt from falling into a trap set...
States’ policies change when their leaders change or when their circumstances change or when their policies reach a dead end. All of this has happened to the Saudi foreign...
The apology offered to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey by U.S. Vice President Biden is unimportant. What is really important is what he said disclosing that...
Despite all the rhetoric about the Palestinian issue, such as it being “the Arab’s first cause”; the central, principal, existential and mother of causes; the initiator of revolutions and...
In March 1955, an Israeli army unit attacked a camp belonging to the Egyptian army inside the Gaza Strip, which was entrusted to Egypt after the 1948 war. The...
Have you at last seen the original Sykes – Picot map? It annexes Mosul to Great Syria, and this is exactly what is happening now. So, are we witnessing...